Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moon do not shine in the same sky. What use has the sun for the moon, which can grow no corn...
Rosyfingered dawn had not yet streaked the sky above the Acropolis. It was the undiplomatic hour of one o'clock of a March morning, and the British Minister to Greece, Sir Milne Cheetham, and Lady Cheetham were sleeping soundly when a group of Greek revolutionaries left sticks of dynamite on the front steps of the British Legation. Sir Milne and Lady Cheetham and all the servants awakened instantly. The dynamite had exploded. The Legation steps were blown away, the massive wooden doors of the Legation were wrecked, a dozen windows were broken...
...love the sea-or Joseph Conrad-or both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely removed from these portentous winds and waves...
Last week this all-American orchestra performed in Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. After Brahms' Second Symphony, which was taken on with spirit and vigor, there was heard for the first time B. Sherman Fowler's Moonlit Sky. Said the program...
...whatever sky's above...